jerry mitchell. we very much appreciate your chair trail blazing work around civil rights and for all people, not just for any one person, but for all people. and american university, we stand firmly upon the institution's commitment to diversity, inclusion and mutual respect. as the chair of the black alumni association i must say that we are very pleased to cosponsor this event tonight with the investigative reporting workshop and school of communication. the aa's mission is to provide alumni and black students with networking and professional development as well as to uplift the ebony [inaudible] and while positively impacting the comptroller of american university. for more information on how to get universe involved, please pick up a postcard at the reception or talk with [inaudible] . i'm proud to be an avid eagle and applaud all our almond eye and groups [inaudible] for the commitment to eu by enhancing the experience of current students with great events such as the one tonight. we invite oug

. >>> next, investigative journalism jerry mitchell talks about his 30-year career with the jackson mississippi clarion ledger. he describes how he helped put four klans men in jail. american university investigative reporting workshop, black alumni alliance hosting this event. it's just under an hour. >> good evening and welcome. hi name is charles louis. welcome here at american university school of communication led by dean

. >>> next on american history tv, investigative journalist jerry mitchell talks about how he helped put four klansmen in jail. american university's investigative reporting workshop block alumni alliance and school of communications co-hosted this event. it's just over an hour. >>> good evening. my name is charles lewis, investigator and executive he hadar to of the investigative reporting workshop. welcome to the doyle theater at american university school of communication. this important event tonight is co-sponsored by the au school of communicat

jerry gold fetter with us a veteran election lawyer who also teaches election law at fordham law school and lincoln mitchellng domestic, political campaigns. and to you first, jerry, this headline written in 2019, how do you reflect on that now considering the response you got at the time? >> well, unfortunately we were right. we knew who we were dealing with an authoritarian personality in trump. and we knew that there were very multiple vulnerabilities in our electoral system. listen, none other than michael cohen, trump's former lawyer and fixer, testified to congress in 2019 that if trump were defeated that there would not be a peaceful transition. we've had 59 presidential elections in this country. ten incumbents have been defeated. they were not re-elected. they were not happy about the whole thing, but they graciously or not so graciously turned over the keys to the white house and left. we always had a feeling that trump would not do that. so we put it out there, as did michael cohen. >> lincoln, what do you worry about now moving forward? >> i worry that not much has changed. in 2018, 2019 jerry a